State of Green Business Report 2010
GreenBiz.com’s annual State of Green Business Report is the landmark study measuring the environmental impacts of the growing green economy. We document whether and how companies were reducing their environmental impacts, and the mixed results revealed: More companies are doing more things, but moving the needle of environmental progress only slightly, if at all. Here is our summary coverage of this year’s findings, including key trends, analysis, and, of course, access to the report itself.
- The EPA has awarded funds to 11 companies working on everything from green buildings to nanotech, with the goal of helping the firms bring their technologies to market.
- Two landmark private sector initiatives are models for the development green chemistry -- and demonstrate how a robust federal initiative could speed the realization of a green chemistry future.
- Green chemistry and biomimicry are powerful tools for reducing the toxic, energy and waste components of companies’ environmental footprint. This post is the first of a four-part series that...
- North American businesses expect to spend more on energy efficiency in the next 12 months despite economic uncertainty that has had a mixed impact on recent investments and current attitudes about...
- Intuit launched a small business sustainability assessment this month, hoping to shine a spotlight on the unsung good deeds performed by local companies throughout the U.S.
- Infrastructure can be the mainstay or the bane of the built environment. In the U.S., failure to address water risks and other critical issues posed by aging or inadequate infrastructure could...
- With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients.
- Five Winds International has created a new website to help companies meet supplier sustainability requirements being imposed by retailers.
- Why on earth would Houston, the city of "drill-baby-drill", the fossil-fuel capital of America, the city whose NFL franchise used to be called the Oilers, embrace the electric car? For good...
- Chemical companies Air Liquide and BASF use their environmental and social resources more efficiently to create value than other major chemical companies around the world, according to a new study...
- Energy efficiency, particularly in buildings, went swimmingly in 2009, in part due to the stimulus package. The outlook for 2010 is likely to be even better since the bulk of the non-bailout stimulus...
- After many years of operating in separate worlds, sustainable business practices and green technology are finding common cause for the greater good.
- Packaging issues have been of concern ever since the advent of "green" as a business issue, and in 2009 a number of genuine packaging innovations appeared to think outside the box and bag.
- The sustainability of food hasn't traditionally been much of a mainstream consumer issue, but the practices of Big Food have come under attack by activists, and companies are learning that reducing...
- The toxicity of products and manufacturing processes has been a concern ever since Silent Spring was published 48 years ago, but a confluence of events and trends in 2009 pushed toxics further into...
- Why should companies worry about carbon management given the lack of a definitive outcome from climate talks in Copenhagen? Panelists from UPS and Motorola shared their firms’ motivations at...
- IT companies are backing up their claims that technology can more than offset its own carbon footprint by developing a seemingly impressive array of capabilities to make the world not just more...
- It's commonly believed that when it comes to energy efficiency and buildings there's some low-hanging fruit -- but going after the rest costs a lot of money. Actually, that's not true, says C. David...
- While individual car buyers stayed out of showrooms with disastrous results, corporate and institutional buyers proved a bright green spot for the industry with increased purchases of hybrid-electric...
- As the parade of progress marches inexorably forward, a growing number of innovations have a distinctly green tinge, significantly reducing material, chemical, water and energy inputs.
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